Berger’s Brain Mirror

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Podcast – Curious Mind, Curious Brain

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This week's podcast tells the story of Hans Berger, a German scientist during the first half of the 20th century. Berger (which a German speaking friend of mine assures me is pronounced "BEAR-grr") thought he had a psychic experience while he was in the military, and that experience lead him to spend the rest of his life studying the brain. Eventually, he invented the EEG, that device that doctors hook up to a patient's head to get a bunch of squiggly lines...